If I had to memorize one book for the rest of my life because all the others were going to be burned, it would have to be The Great Gatsby. It’s the kind of book that when I finished it, I felt like a part of me was gone. The plot interested me to the point that I never wanted the book to end. I was dying to know what happened to Daisy and Tom after they disappeared. I also wanted to know if maybe Nick was going to start a over in a new city, and what happened to old Owl Eyes.
Gatsby was the first novel I read for school that I read with a critically and by doing so I feel more in love with the novel.The drama that went on was nail biting and fascinating. The over all theme of the corruption of greed got me to actually think how greed can apply to today's society as well.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Annotated Bibliography
Downing, Crystal. “Reading Hamlet.” Hamlet: with Contemporary Essays. Ed. Joseph Pearce. San Francisco: Ignatius Pr, 2008. Print
Through the eyes of Downing, Hamlet is a play based on the interpretation of the text. She uses various in text examples to enforce her argument. She states that the often use of the "that" in Hamlet's "to be or not be" soliloquy is usually misinterpreted. According to her, when the "that" in the soliloquy is emphasized readers or audiences interpret the line as if Hamlet is debating whether he should commit suicide or not. The article also points out that interpretation is tricky because of "the reliability of the audience/reader and the reliability of the speaker/ writer"( pg.188). By stating this, the author ultimately re-enforces her main argument.
The article is a good source for information if people want to learn more about interpretation and its affect on the audience experiencing the play, movie, novel or poem. The goal it's putting forward is that the author wants to have the reader gain a deeper understanding of the Elizabethan era language in Hamlet.The article gave me a lot of insight into the word of Shakespearian language. I learned that maybe my point of view while reading Hamlet can be seen differently by other people, and their interpretation can be completely different to mine. If i had to write a paper on how Shakespeare worded Hamlet, I would definitely use this article as a source to re-enforce my argument when I want to discuss that Hamlet is a play based mostly on what people perceive from it.
Through the eyes of Downing, Hamlet is a play based on the interpretation of the text. She uses various in text examples to enforce her argument. She states that the often use of the "that" in Hamlet's "to be or not be" soliloquy is usually misinterpreted. According to her, when the "that" in the soliloquy is emphasized readers or audiences interpret the line as if Hamlet is debating whether he should commit suicide or not. The article also points out that interpretation is tricky because of "the reliability of the audience/reader and the reliability of the speaker/ writer"( pg.188). By stating this, the author ultimately re-enforces her main argument.
The article is a good source for information if people want to learn more about interpretation and its affect on the audience experiencing the play, movie, novel or poem. The goal it's putting forward is that the author wants to have the reader gain a deeper understanding of the Elizabethan era language in Hamlet.The article gave me a lot of insight into the word of Shakespearian language. I learned that maybe my point of view while reading Hamlet can be seen differently by other people, and their interpretation can be completely different to mine. If i had to write a paper on how Shakespeare worded Hamlet, I would definitely use this article as a source to re-enforce my argument when I want to discuss that Hamlet is a play based mostly on what people perceive from it.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Flowers
(On the card to Queen Gertrude from Hamlet)
"To my mother, the woman who loves me and my late father:
Violets for faithfulness and innocence that tho' lacks. Rosemaries for remembrance of thy 'love', my father. One long stem red rose for thy undying passion for that ogre you call a husband. Camellias for my never ending gratitude from me to you for my birth. Red chrysanthemums that symbolize my love for you, my mother. I may not return from England, so enclosed with these flowers may be my final good-bye.
-Your son, Hamlet"
The flowers Ophelia gives away symbolically represents something to each character in a way; a secret messgage she sends to each of them. Rosemary for remembrance of their father and pansies for thoughts to Laertes, so he can use his mind wisely when dealing with King Claudius, who is only using him as a tool to kill Hamlet with out getting his hands dirty. Fennel and columbines to Gertrude symbolizing flattery because she was a mother figure to her and adultery for how quickly she forgot about her late husbands recent death. Rue to Claudius representing repentance, meaning that he should repent for what he did. Violets meaning innocence that she had in this whole sitiation and roses symbolizing her love to Hamlet. At this point in the scene it apprears to me that Ophelia has an idea of what she is doing. That she like Hamlet pretended to go mad just in this scene or that maybe in this exact moment she has a short moment of sanity. The flower scene fits in with the whole garden motif of how King Hamlet was killed in the garden where the whole conflict of the play began.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Did Shakespear know about Dante?
The article does have some good arguments to whether Shakespeare knew Dante, but each argument is weak and cannot be backed up by circumstantial evidence. One argument states that they both had the same line translated into "I drink, I eat, I array myself, I live" the problem with that is that Shakespeare had no knowledge of Italian, and according to the article, if he had any it wasn't much to read a whole work written by Dante. In my opinion, it seems like a coincidence, and if Shakespeare did indeed know something about Dante he had someone who knew Italian read Dante's works for him.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Canto 37
Those who live in vanity and a craving for beauty
Miss life's beauty, nature's beauty and
The simplicity of being happy.
They catch a glimpse of themselves with quick glances and motions.
The lustful for eternal beauty perceive themselves as the epitome of "the fairest one of all."
Many of them looked down upon others with devotion
To art, philosophy, and knowledge.
They believe in a new way of thinking;
They are not held hostage.
Those who only seek beatuty and are vain
Are punished deep below the oceans.
They spend their days with leprosy and pain.
Looking at their refections in broken
Mirrors they cry to all that is holy
To end their suffering.
Their woeful cries never to be heard
By He who is holy and mighty.
Their tears seen, their despair listened to.
All ignored, they are outcasts of society.
Their vanity isolated them from human interaction.
Among them, Cleopatra whose beauty betrayed her
When she betrayed her people for a lover.
Mike the Situation, whose vanity made him irritating;
Causing him to lose a battle of dance.
Kanye West with his prose and loss
Of reality, informs other lost souls to
Take refuge in his grotesque "good looks."
My guide, Perez Hilton pulls me away.
He explains the people of this underworld
Are meant to suffer and to be left where
No one can see them, hear them.
They are to suffer in never ending pain.
Only meant to agonize over the
Cycle for eternity.
Where their pain is cured, and then
Progresses back to Leprosy each and every day.
Explanation:
My canto is in the second level of hell where the lustful and the vain live. The people must live with the agonizing pain of having Leprosy. Which is then cured, but progresses back to the illness when a new day begins. I chose Leprosy because it is a disease that causes people to lose fingers and toes, become blind, and stay in a state of health where they are constantly weak. Causing these people to become the outcasts they once detested. The vain must also stay stationed in front of a mirror to watch the disease vanish and come back again. They cry for God to help them, but He can't hear them due to the fact that everyone has to ignore them and because they're below the ocean. Their vanity caused them to dismiss everything that is actually beautiful in the world, which is ironic because being so in love with beauty and attaining it, they miss seeing true beauty. I have certain celebrities and historical figures in the canto because they are prime examples of people who are seen as beautiful, but are actually ugly because they don't look beyond being "good looking." My guide is Perez Hilton, because although he irritates me, I look up to him for the fact that he tells the truth and reveals the imperfections and mistakes of celebrities and well known figures.
Miss life's beauty, nature's beauty and
The simplicity of being happy.
They catch a glimpse of themselves with quick glances and motions.
The lustful for eternal beauty perceive themselves as the epitome of "the fairest one of all."
Many of them looked down upon others with devotion
To art, philosophy, and knowledge.
They believe in a new way of thinking;
They are not held hostage.
Those who only seek beatuty and are vain
Are punished deep below the oceans.
They spend their days with leprosy and pain.
Looking at their refections in broken
Mirrors they cry to all that is holy
To end their suffering.
Their woeful cries never to be heard
By He who is holy and mighty.
Their tears seen, their despair listened to.
All ignored, they are outcasts of society.
Their vanity isolated them from human interaction.
Among them, Cleopatra whose beauty betrayed her
When she betrayed her people for a lover.
Mike the Situation, whose vanity made him irritating;
Causing him to lose a battle of dance.
Kanye West with his prose and loss
Of reality, informs other lost souls to
Take refuge in his grotesque "good looks."
My guide, Perez Hilton pulls me away.
He explains the people of this underworld
Are meant to suffer and to be left where
No one can see them, hear them.
They are to suffer in never ending pain.
Only meant to agonize over the
Cycle for eternity.
Where their pain is cured, and then
Progresses back to Leprosy each and every day.
Explanation:
My canto is in the second level of hell where the lustful and the vain live. The people must live with the agonizing pain of having Leprosy. Which is then cured, but progresses back to the illness when a new day begins. I chose Leprosy because it is a disease that causes people to lose fingers and toes, become blind, and stay in a state of health where they are constantly weak. Causing these people to become the outcasts they once detested. The vain must also stay stationed in front of a mirror to watch the disease vanish and come back again. They cry for God to help them, but He can't hear them due to the fact that everyone has to ignore them and because they're below the ocean. Their vanity caused them to dismiss everything that is actually beautiful in the world, which is ironic because being so in love with beauty and attaining it, they miss seeing true beauty. I have certain celebrities and historical figures in the canto because they are prime examples of people who are seen as beautiful, but are actually ugly because they don't look beyond being "good looking." My guide is Perez Hilton, because although he irritates me, I look up to him for the fact that he tells the truth and reveals the imperfections and mistakes of celebrities and well known figures.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
The Roaring 20's
1. The National Origina Act of 1924 was put into action stating that annual immagration from foreiign countries can only be two percent of the countries emmagrators already present in the U.S. Thus limiting the amount of people emmegrating to the U.S. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 732)
2. The beginning of buying things on credit. People began to adore the idea of but something and then payig it off little by little, but ultimately the constant buying on ccredit led to the Great Depression here in the United States. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 715)
3. Ernest Hemingway's book A Farewell to Arms was writtien. In it he spoke about his experiences during WWI and he gives a view on how the war was usless and how politicians were did not know what they were doing. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 730)
4. Cars became more famous amoung American consumers. Companies lk GM, Ford, and Chrysler came into their own and more households were able to own the luxury item of having a car because they bought and payed for them using credit. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 714)
5. Women began working more in corperate offices as secretaries, typests of fileing clerks. Although they began to have more of a presence in the male dominated work world, women were earning less for the same job. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 715)
Sources
1. The Enduring Vision. Copyright 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA
2. The beginning of buying things on credit. People began to adore the idea of but something and then payig it off little by little, but ultimately the constant buying on ccredit led to the Great Depression here in the United States. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 715)
3. Ernest Hemingway's book A Farewell to Arms was writtien. In it he spoke about his experiences during WWI and he gives a view on how the war was usless and how politicians were did not know what they were doing. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 730)
4. Cars became more famous amoung American consumers. Companies lk GM, Ford, and Chrysler came into their own and more households were able to own the luxury item of having a car because they bought and payed for them using credit. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 714)
5. Women began working more in corperate offices as secretaries, typests of fileing clerks. Although they began to have more of a presence in the male dominated work world, women were earning less for the same job. ( The Enduring Visoion chapter 23 page 715)
Sources
1. The Enduring Vision. Copyright 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA
Nick Bio Poem
The writer of mysterious prose.
The concealer of truth, the lonely one, the seer of all.
Relative of Daisy,his mother, and his father.
Lover of whiskey, gossip, the East.
Who feels lonely, apathetic, and curious.
Who needs friendship, love, a new beginning.
Who gives a different view of the world around him, his quiet criticism of each person he encounters, and his his lesson about life.
Who would like see the world, Mr. Gatsby, and his version of the America dream fulfilled.
Resident of West Egg
Nick Carraway
The concealer of truth, the lonely one, the seer of all.
Relative of Daisy,his mother, and his father.
Lover of whiskey, gossip, the East.
Who feels lonely, apathetic, and curious.
Who needs friendship, love, a new beginning.
Who gives a different view of the world around him, his quiet criticism of each person he encounters, and his his lesson about life.
Who would like see the world, Mr. Gatsby, and his version of the America dream fulfilled.
Resident of West Egg
Nick Carraway
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